29. I. 1918

Comrade Podvoysky!

In my view, the petitioner — Balonov — is right in his request to accord military honors to his father-in-law, who was killed on 13. VII. 1917 for Bolshevism*.

Please telephone me your opinion or convey it to me personally.

Lenin

(11 February) 1918

Written 29 January

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript